Isis Briones: How stoked are you to be at Your Paradise? Can you tell us how an intimate venue like this compares to larger music festivals?

NGHTMRE: "We got here a couple days ago and we're staying for five to six days. It's definitely more of a vacation. I just have the one show, so it's nice to have some days off. I'm also excited to have more person-to-person interactions given how small the event is. Being so close to the crowd lets me build off their energy and they can feed off mine, too. Personally, having everyone close by feels more high energy. Though bigger events have really cool production and sick stages, nothing beats meeting and hanging out with people afterwards."

NGHTMRE taking a break in Bali, Indonesia.Courtesy of Instagram

IB: Totally! If you had to choose, can you pick out a favorite moment from all the shows you played this year?

N: "I would say our Bali trip in April. It was my brother's birthday, so he, my dad, and one of my really good friends were all there. My dad had never done anything like that and he was really happy to be able to see us on tour in other countries. It blew his mind and mine, too, to see his child performing.

Lollapalooza in Berlin was also one of my favorites. It was at the end of a pretty long tour. You know bass music in Europe is not anything like it is in the US or Australia, so the shows can be super hit or miss. We had been in Europe for weeks and I was so tired. I was playing Lolla at 1:30 PM and was like, 'Is anybody even going to be here?' I'm the second person onstage and we got there and it was insane. It was so wild, everyone was hype and it was full. That was a great moment and one of my best shows.

Apart from shows, me and Dillon [Francis] finally put out a song that we've been waiting forever to release. All the music that I previously wrote the year before finally dropped. It takes such a long time, so it's nice when you've been working for a while to see it all come together."

IB: Speaking of collaborations, it's awesome you were able to work with Wiz Khalifa. How did that come about and what was it like?

N: "'TTM' was actually a PnB Rock song. Originally, we hit him up because he was in New York and we wanted to do a session. I told him that I'd love to have him be featured in something or I had a lot of beats, so I could always work on something for him. Then we got to the studio, played him a bunch of songs and he ended up liking that one, so I wrote a verse or two to it. It was actually hilarious because by the time he recorded the first verse, I turned around and he was already asleep.

After that, PnB called up Wiz and had him record the second verse. Even though Wiz wasn't in the studio with us, it came together really well. We did the session on September 3 and right after, we didn't really hear back from then until mid-October. Once they got back to us, we wanted to drop it right away. It all came together quickly and we put it out in two weeks."

IB: Wow, what a turnaround. Do you have upcoming tracks with other artists?

N: "The next one that I think will be cool is my big collaboration with A$AP Ferg, which will be out in 2018. This song is super hype and heavy."

NGHTMRE performing in Las Vegas.Courtesy of Instagram

IB: That's awesome, we can't wait for it! How do you see your sound evolving, will your music continue to have hip-hop influences in the future?

N: "I feel like a lot of my music is rooted in hip-hop. It's tough to say. I get that question asked a lot, but I never know how to answer it. I never really sit down and go 'I'm going to make this because hip-hop's in right now.' I usually just write whatever I feel inspired to write, but I feel like generally, my taste has moved with the rest of the world.

When I first started producing, I feel like house music was super exciting. Then I transferred to dubstep and trans. Now it's a mixture of all these things. I think I'll always be making dubstep-banger festival stuff though. You know, music that gets my 15-year-old self pumped."

IB: What about in 10 years, where do you see yourself then?

N: "I think I'm always going to be doing music, but in 10 years, I'll probably be pretty tired of touring. I'd like to think I won't be. In reality, I don't think I can do 175 shows a year like I do now. When I moved to LA, it was always my mission to become an amazing music producer. I wanted to be a DJ, but my goal was to be a producer who got good placements and did everything that came with it, so I definitely want to do that in the long-run. That's really part of the reason why we pushed a collab with PnB Rock and Wiz along with the A$AP Ferg track I have coming up. I can sort of make a name for myself as a producer for other artists. I see myself slowly making that transition from performing and doing shows as NGHTMRE to being a producer like Diplo, he has so much going on."

Additional reporting by Ederlyn Inon.

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